Clothes-pounder



(N o Model.)

M. REMINGTON & J. L. RITER.

4 CLOTHES POUNDER. v No. 285,930. Patented Oct. 2, 1883.

WITNESSES: INVENTOR S A TTORNEY NTTED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MOSES REMINGTON AND JOHN L. RITER, OF BROWNSVILLE, INDIANA.

CLOTHES-POUNDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 285,930, dated October 2, 1883.

Application filed April 4, 1883. (No model.) i

'To all whom it may concern Be it known that we. Mosns REMINGTON and JOHN L. RITER, of Brownsville, Union county, Indiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Clothes-Vashers, of which the following is a specification.

This invention pertains to that class of clotheswashers which consist of an inverted air-cup arranged with a handle or other means by which it may be applied vertically and downward upon clothes in water, whereby air compressed in the cup seeks an outlet through the clothes below it, and thus forms washingcurrents. This class of washers are sometimes provided with ducts, valves, &c., to ad mit air to the cup upon the upstroke.

Our improvement relates to the construction of the air-inlet conduits and the guard over the upper end of the same.

The invention will be understood from the specification and claim, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a side view of the washer, with aportion broken away to show one side in section; Fig. 2, a plan of the same, with aportion of the top guard broken away so as to expose the top of air-conduit; and Fig. 3, a side view, part section, of the invention in modified form.

In the drawings, A represents a portion of the handle; B, the air-cup, constructed usually of tin; O, the roof of the air-cup, the sides of the cup being in the form of a cone, and continued upward beyond the roof to give a conical exterior; D, a hollow conical guard at the top of the cone and surrounding the handle-socket; E, the air-conduit up the sides of the cup; F, the air-inlet at the upper end of the air-conduit, and G the air-outlet at the rim of the cup, above its lower edge.

In Figs. 1 and 2 the air-conduit is formed of three fiat pipes attached exterior to the air enters under the guard into orifices F cup, their upper ends being located under and behind the top-guard perforations inthe lower edge of the cup, but above the bottom, form- 5 ing the air-outlets from the conduit. In Fig. 3 the air-conduit surrounds the cup and is stayed by studs H. This really forms a double cup or shell, and the outer shell being the longer, the air can leave the conduit and enter the cup at a point above its extreme lower edge. During the upstroke of the device 7 through the air-conduit, and into the cup at G. On the downstroke the early contact of the rim of the cup with the clothes and water seals the orifices G and the air becomes compressed in the cup. Should the compres sion become excessive, and the air-conduit not be completely sealed below, some water will be forced up the air-conduit. This water will discharge from the apertures F under the top guard, and be deflected downward in a spray onto the clothes around the cup. The full volume of the air-cup is unrestricted by the air-conduit.

WVe claim as our invention In a clothes-washer, an air-cup provided with p a handle, and having air-conduits with their upper terminals above the cup, and with their lower terminals below the roof of the cup and above its lower edge, whereby the conduits become sealed soon after the edge of the cup reaches the water, and the air in the cup becomes confined and compressed, and whereby said conduits become unsealed before the edge of the cup leaves the water, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

MOSES REMINGTON. JOHN L. RITER.

Witnesses:

,BRUCE SUTTON, F. D. KnNYoN. 

